The Plank
In Defense Of Rfk Stadium
Fear The Tilt-a-whirl!
Chris and I took the kids to the Montgomery County Ag Fair this weekend. Both days. All day. In scorching heat. Life lesson from the outing: No matter how much your children plead, do not follow up a heavy lunch of fair food with multiple trips on rides with names like Zero Gravity. Trust me. READ MORE >>
From The Archives: Kay Bailey Hutchinson
The General As Rock Star
The WaPo's Rajiv Chandrasekaran has a long article on the sacking of David McKiernan, formerly the top U.S. commander in Kabul. The main reason for McKiernan's removal, according to Chandrasekaran: READ MORE >>
Is The Wapo Clinically Depressed?
In general, I don't like to pile on when people gloat about the tough times being endured by the news business broadly or, more specifically, about what some of my journalistic colleagues regard as the panicked death spiral in which the WaPo is currently stuck. But this morning my hometown paper all but dared me to join in. READ MORE >>
Kbh Gets Ready To Rumble
In officially tossing her cowgirl hat into the 2010 Texas governor's race this morning, Kay Bailey Hutchinson (as previewed by Mike Allen) is set to take this shot at sitting governor Rick Perry: "He's a dedicated public servant. I know he loves Texas. But now he's trying to stay too long--14 years, maybe longer." READ MORE >>
Training Russia's Enemies
Today At Tnr (august 17, 2009)
Meet Tim Geither’s Wall St. Consigliere: How Queasy Should Lee Sachs’s Influence Make Us? by Noam Scheiber How Europe Will Undermine Obama’s Iran Policy, by Benjamin Weinthal READ MORE >>
Political Myspaces
David Roth is a writer living in New York. READ MORE >>
Tnrtv: Reviews I Wish I Hadn't Written...
TNR film critic Stanley Kauffmann expresses regret about some of his earlier pieces of criticism. Try to guess what this refers to: "I've been more embarassed about that privately than anything else I've ever written...". READ MORE >>
